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Subject(s)

• Christian ethics [Browse]
• Ten commandments—Feminist criticism [Browse]
• Ten commandments—Criticism, interpretation, etc [Browse]

Related work(s)

Zlotnick, Helena. Dinah's daughters. [Browse]

Series

• BTC (Series) ; 4. [More in this series]
• Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 401. [More in this series]
• Bible in the twenty-first century series ; 4

Summary note

At the heart of the Exodus is a recitation of the Decalogue, a "contract" between Yahweh and Israel that inscribes Israel into the fabric of human societies while emphasizing its uniqueness through Yahweh. According to the demands of the Decalogue, manhood entails the avoidance of stealing, killing, and coveting, not to mention apostasy and violation of the Sabbath and other men's property. What, then, would be the essence of womanhood, if different? Is there an exclusion of women from active participation in the Sinaitic theophany and, consequently, from active sharing of responsibility and i

Notes

"Forms a sequel to [Sivan's] Dinah's daughters: gender and Judaism from the Hebrew Bible to late antiquity (published under the name of Helena Zlotnick)"--P. [xi].

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-256) and indexes.

Language note

English

Contents

• Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 THE WINDING PATHS OF BIBLICAL WO/MANHOOD; 1. The Decalogue: Scholarly Controversies and Consensus; 2. Making Wo/Men; 3. A New Reading of the Decalogue and Some Old Problems; 4. A Rabbinic Reading of the Decalogue; Chapter 2 MONOTHEISM = MONOGAMY? TEXT, IMAGE AND PARADIGM (WORD ONE; WORD TWO); 1. Meanings of Monotheism; 2. Moses and Gendered Monotheism; 3. Norms of Piety/Impiety: On Altars and Slaves in the 'Covenant Code'; 4. A Calf of Gold: The Allure of the Image and the Attraction of Apostasy
• 5. Purity, Pollution and Piety: Leviticus and Numbers on 'Leprosy'6. Making Monotheists: Deuteronomy's Version; 7. Family and Female Slavery: Deuteronomy 15; 8. From Broken to Recovered Torah: A Calf of Gold, a Queen and a Prophetess; 9. Coda and 'Conversion'; Chapter 3 OATH: DAUGHTER OF DISCORD? (WORD THREE; WORD NINE); 1. Sins of Speaking; 2. Harmony and Matrimony; 3. Deuteronomy on Justice; 4. Vows, Virginity and Parenthood; 5. Tongues of Duplicity? Rahab and Jael; 6. On Witches and Wives: From Ein Dor to Jezebel; 7. Coda: Ruth and Redemption
• Chapter 4 THE SABBATH: INVOKING LIBERATION? REVOKING CREATION? (WORD FOUR)1. The Sabbath: Biblical and Modern Interpretations; 2. Exodus and the Sabbath: Labor and Leisure on the Seventh Day; 3. Eve: A Gift of the Sabbath?; 4. Deuteronomy's Sabbath of Liberation; 5. 'Is it a Sabbath or New Moon Today?': Maternity, Sabbath and 'Creation'; 6. From Jericho to Jerusalem: Rahab, Athalia and the Meaning of Sabbatical 'Liberation'; Chapter 5 THE BURDEN OF BIRTH AND THE POLITICS OF MOTHERHOOD (WORD FIVE); 1. Motherhood and Deference
• 2. The Name of the Father: From Leviticus to the Daughters of Zelophehad3. The Meaning(s) of Motherhood: Genesis Variations; 4. Moses and Maternity; 5. Deuteronomy's Disobedient Sons and Unruly Daughters; 6. Mothers and Super-Sons: The Story of Samson; Chapter 6 THE MAPPING OF MURDER (WORD SIX); 1. 'Law' and Ethics; 2. The Meaning of Murder According to Numbers; 3. Metaphors of Murder: The Genesis Variation; 4. Is the Killing of Women Justifiable? Murder as Metaphorical Rape; 5. A Deuteronomic Anatomy of Murder; 6. Killing for Lust? The Female Body as Motivation of Murder
• 7. Metaphors of Murder: The Rape of Tamar8. The Killing Female of the Species; 9. Postscript: The Female Body as a Deadly Weapon; Chapter 7 CONJUGALITY AND COVENANT (WORD SEVEN); 1. Prelude: Whose Adultery is it Anyway?; 2. Adultery: The View of Leviticus; 3. Adultery According to Genesis; 4. Revealing the Concealed: The Ordeal of the Sotah; 5. Adultery: The View of Deuteronomy; 6. Does Sinning Pay? The Morality of Adultery in 2 Samuel 11; Chapter 8 STEALING HEARTS, THIEVING BODIES (WORD EIGHT); 1. What Does 'Stealing' Really Mean?; 2. Between Man and Man: Exodus on Abduction
• 3. Rachel: Mediating Men by Theft

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ISBN

• 9786611802332
• 9781281802330
• 1281802336
• 9780567609984
• 0567609987

OCLC

• 276306920
• 893334539

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